What a privilege these has been reading through and applying the knowledge that are in the chapters with the explanations of how they work. I am someone who has ADD and sometimes I get distracted from what I’m doing, especially when it comes down to programming which I can say I think I am horrible at. But, Ms. Cordone AKA AngleMapper to the unreal community brings programming with UDK fun for the new user and to people like myself with some slight hurdles to jump across.

I was asked to review a part of the book I liked and why. Sadly I cannot, due to the whole book itself being great read and knowledge tool to those out there that are starting out and have questions on how the inner working of UDK work how they are applied and work with each other. The hands on examples are great as you can apply them to your own alpha as you’re building your game and its environment.

I was about quarter of the way through the book and noticed I was starting to read into how the actor scripting worked and how the script works with the model to allow the model to keeping their feet on the floor and not in the middle of the floor, which has happened before in programming.

But after reading through that particular section I was able to understand and wrap my head around it. I finally knew the values and how the rotation worked without the headache I would end up giving myself in the end in frustration. With this however, it was understandable, upfront and told you what X did with Y and the reasons why they work together so well.

Ms. Cordone’s Guide to UDK gets a 9.5 out of 10 for aiming towards those needing a step up, and helping hand into the programming side if the gaming field and helping us grasp the concepts and learning from them. I thank Rachel and Shaveer for this great opportunity it is a pleasure finally to grasp things that seemed more complicated than they actually are. You can pick up a copy at Packt Publications where you can find other titles to help the UDK Dev Studio that's starting out!

Steven. A Lundberg
Admin/Project Lead

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Hey, just throwing an update to the Road Buster that Nicholas is on right now. I decided it would be best to give a sneak peek to the WIP on the color scheme and Nicholas is doing a knockup job of it. Here is a Wire WIP Update of the Model itself and as you can see the Blue and Silver really come out nice, We'll update you again with an in Engine shot of the vehicle with it's owner.
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Greetings All, just wanted to get this out and show the work one of our newer team members have done with some of the concepts from the various shows from the same universe and helping bring them closer together. Here is Mr. N. Hall’s work on the 2039 2039-Yamaha_Rapier_Mark_IIX. We’ll be showing some of the work of Anna Rudniki and and Jess Thomas as well here in the next month as well.
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Hello everyone, I and my team welcome you all back to the site. We did have some major issues over the past year, and those have been taken care of thanks to the pow wow Bruce and I had a few weeks ago on how to keep things on a better stream of progress. We’re now hosted, and site has been updated and brought back up to snuff with the help of Moc of http://www.mochosting.nl for his insightful mind on fixing the issues we were experiencing on the database import/restore. Since the site is back up we can also post news and progress on the project at hand as well. As some of you obviously have already read. We have a team of skilled individuals that work well as a precision based machine without being treated as such. Wanted to bring Sean DiVincenzo and Jean Gorospe on the spot at the moment because they deserve it, the skills they have brought to the team are quite impressive. Here are a few Samples of the work they have already done on the project as a matter of fact from our page at indie database to show the level and knowledge these two have. Sean’s work on The Hugh Geit Facility is outstanding, I am totally in love with the artwork and detailing.



Here we have Jean’s work on one of The AD Police troopers in field gear.

Here are 2 Media Clips of one of the AD Police troopers.

Improved ADP Trooper video - MegaTokyo-2041 Game - Indie DB
AD Police Trooper 1 video - MegaTokyo-2041 Game - Indie DB
We’ll have some more to show you from Jean here in the upcoming weeks.

Here is the work Mr. Alex Collins has been doing on side between work and his studies for Game Development at ITT
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As this progresses we will be keeping you updated on the status of the Alpha City, it’s to be our sandbox/testbed the programmers will be using to enable gameplay and features. As you can see we are busy at work on this and will be bringing you more news and updates as they come. For now this is Leonardo talking to you from the homefront here at Jade Phoenix.
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Simon and Thomas Graduated with distinctions "Foundation Degree in Science with a Distinction in Computing". Cheers and Congratulations & Jubilations to The two men I knew would graduate and excel in thier fields. These two gentlemen are part of the true spirit of what Jade Phoenix is about. Striving for excellence and professionalism in everything we do in life.

Simon is currently already foring for 1 of Britian's finer educational establishments now as part of the web/it dept. Thomas is cirrently taking it easy as to rest for a bit seeing and knowing the experinces he's had over the past year or so. Simon has well when he gets the chance to. In The meantime we've still a lil bit of work to do.
We're proud of these two and you will all see nothing but good things from these two gentlemen.
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